Why I write is why I live

writing is a mission 

a mission that is fullfilled 

with the hands of a black male 

slowly writing his will

a will that is empty 

due to social order

when he leaves his family 

forced across the border

hoping to come back 

to see his little girl 

but he is picking cotton 

here in this new world

and why do i write 

i write to feel free

to use what M.L.K and Abe gave to me

they gave me a new light 

a light to see and live

cause poems aren't slang 

it's talking in cursive

but the people that curse 

and curse in wierd slang 

they don't know what they live for 

not to be a gang 

so i write to be free 

and outside of trouble 

and to be myself 

out of the bubble